The Role of Network Management Systems in Virtualized Environments
July 05, 2011
The effects of deploying virtualization technologies reach far beyond the parts of the infrastructure that are being virtualized by altering the roles of traditional infrastructure components. Virtualizing servers and desktops changes how organizations go about providing IT services, but also changes how the performance of IT services is being managed across the entire delivery chain. Sixty-two percent of organizations that participated in TRAC's recent survey reported that lack of visibility across the IT service delivery chain is one of the key challenges for managing IT performance in virtualized environments. As a result, organizations are increasingly realizing that ensuring optimal performance of their networks becomes even more important once they have virtualized their infrastructure. Furthermore, managing network performance in virtualized environments requires network management systems (NMS) to be enhanced with a new set of capabilities so they can address key challenges of virtualization management.

This report from TRAC Research analyzes the impact of virtualization technologies on network management and examines capabilities that are becoming increasingly important in virtualized environments.

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